Keep Cubs on WGN

February 18, 2013

I have read Paul Sullivan's article concerning the Cubs considering leaving WGN, (“Cubs may part ways with WGN-TV after 2014 season, ending half-century relationship,” News, Feb. 18). As a lifelong Cubs fan living in the South with WGN as my main source of watching Cubs' games, this possibility upsets me and is clearly the wrong move.

I think the below paragraph from Sullivan’s article is very telling and disturbing:

The Rickettses have shed players, managers, announcers, executives, scouts, even the employee responsible for getting the seventh-inning stretch singers over the last two years. But leaving WGN would mark the end of an era soaked in nostalgia.

In other words, the Rickettses are running the Cubs into the ground (ruining the franchise). Keep WGN. Find a new owner. Dump the Rickettses.